sān​shí'ér​lì

established at thirty

  • created sense approved 三十而立 · sān​shí'ér​lì · established at thirty — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    三十而立

    sān​shí'ér​lì

    established at thirty

    (idiom) Thirty years of age as the time when one should be established and independent in society. Originally from the [[论语|論語|lun2 yu3]] (Analects).

    三十 (literal) → 三十 · sān​shí · thirty 而立 (literal) → 而立 · ér​lì · thirty years old

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense